Since starting this site, my own career has evolved. The origin of this site was a manuscript I was working on. That particular manuscript, which explores opportunities women have to live and work abroad, has been completed for what feels like eons. I’ve had several publishing opportunities fall through and I’ve committed to publishing that particular manuscript as an ebook. It’s not, however, the focus of my interest in travel and work at this point.
I’ve become more interested in the opportunities available to the digital nomad and how individuals can travel and work long-term. I’m interested in the tools, the coworking spaces, the mechanics of the process. To a certain extent, I’m also interested in what opportunities are the most practical for such a lifestyle.
Personally, my recent travels have been short term: I’m working on my MA in Baltimore, which makes it much harder to get out of town for even a month. I have big plans for the future, but for the present, I’m not going to far.
In light of all of this, one of my goals is to bring someone in to work with me on producing the sort of content for this site that will truly be useful. I want to find someone who is out there, on the road, at this point. Testing out some of the tools I use on a week long trip just doesn’t give me the confidence I need to say that one option is better than another for someone who is on the road all year long.
It’s going to be a slow process, I know, but I do believe in the value of this blog and will continue to build it.
David Ning, the blogger behind MoneyNing, has a passion for travel. He’s down a fair amount of traveling himself and collected tips and tricks for keeping expenses under control while you’re on the road. That information has evolved into a book, The Little Budget Travel Book
Janice Waugh saw an unusual question in the Google search terms that led people to her blog, Solo Traveler: Is it weird to travel solo? The question caught my attention because more than a few people heading off on longer trips are going solo. Planning to spend a year or two in another country, or to just travel when the mood strikes you? There’s a chance that you might have a significant other interested in traveling with you, but it’s equally likely that you’re going it alone.
Blogging and travel seem to go together like milk and cookies. The idea of living as a digital nomad — heading wherever sounds good and writing about it along the way — appeals to a lot of people, especially when writing about their experiences can help defray the cost of travel. BlogSherpa is an opportunity to do just that.
‘What is your purpose in entering this country?’ It’s not an uncommon question when you’re going through customs, but it’s one that I’ve been thinking about an awful lot lately. It’s a question that definitely has right and wrong questions — and some serious ramifications for anyone who works from wherever they happen to be this week.
Congratulations to Fran, the winner of last week’s giveaway. Fran, look for an email from me to arrange sending out your book.
I have a couple of favorite places when it comes to dragging my laptop along on an adventure. Kinsale, Ireland is up near the top of my list. Mallorca, Spain is equally great. My grandparents’ cabin up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado definitely ranks.
When you’ve been traveling for a little while, you can usually figure out how to make wherever you’re staying feel like home. But making your current location feel like an office — like an environment where you can get some work done — can be a lot harder. These are just a few tricks to make sure you can get into the frame of mind to get your work done.
When you’re thinking about creating a lifestyle that you can pick up and travel, entrepreneurship seems to be a prerequisite. But is it really necessary to build a new business entirely from scratch in order to work from wherever you happen to be today? Not so much.
There are more than a few resources when it comes to planning a trip around the world. Most of those resources, though, are geared towards individual travelers, or maybe couples. It’s not considered the norm to pack up the whole family and and start traveling. Russell and Carla Fisher did just that, however, taking their two daughters on a year-long trip around the world, trekking across Europe, Asia and Australia. When they got home, the Fishers wrote WorldTrek: A Family Odyssey
I’m pretty proud of my little sister. Beyond the standard big sister stuff, I think the fact that she figured out how to get herself to France and back at the age of sixteen is pretty cool.
